My life had been divided into two distinct phases separated by a single morning as I approached my 40th birthday—two worlds ...

One chronically overstimulated guy headed to a silent meditation retreat to spend ten days tuning into his psyche. That’s ...

In an attempt to escape, one overstimulated writer booked into a silent retreat – no reading, no writing, no eye contact – to spend 10 days turning into his psyche.

The centres were established and popularised by S. N. Goenka (“go-aink-uh”), a successful Burmese businessman who originally found vipassana meditation to relieve debilitating headaches. He died in ...